“Surely you have heard of the Wizard of Menlo Park, the great inventor Thomas Edison. His name is in all the papers.”

“Well…”

“He’s comin’ out here to test some kind of new invention durin’ the eclipse. Probably half of the folks in Rawlins are here to see the eclipse, but I bet you even money half came out only because Edison’s here and they want to see what he’s up to.”

“So I suppose that’s why you’re here,” Curry surmised, with a slight bit of disdain, “to see what he’s up to.”

_________________h"Do you ever get the feeling that nothing right is ever going to happen to us again?" - Kid Curry